# free-books-english-poetry

> free-books-english-poetry is a paid API for AI agents from intel.rallylive.ca, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Browse and download free public-domain English poetry books from Project Gutenberg and Internet Archive, ranked by relevance and popularity, with optional keyword filtering by title or author.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://intel.rallylive.ca/library/subject/english-poetry
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/free-books-english-poetry-634a2709
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap__GZnHJfhnIEl6LtkbeJ7v

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability free-books-english-poetry-634a2709
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up a list of free public-domain English poetry books I can download — ideally ranked by popularity — and filter it to anything by Keats or Shelley?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a curated, daily-verified catalogue of free English poetry ebooks with direct download links, ranked by popularity, rather than scraping Project Gutenberg or Internet Archive directly. Ideal for agents building reading lists, literary research tools, or content pipelines that need structured access to public-domain poetry without parsing raw archive pages.

## Known failure modes

- No results returned if the keyword filter is too narrow or misspelled
- Stale or broken download links if a source archive removes content between daily re-verifications
- Pagination out of range if requested page exceeds available results
- Network timeout if upstream Project Gutenberg or Internet Archive is slow

## How this service works

Free public-domain books on "English poetry": browse the catalogue's works tagged with that Library of Congress subject (674 in Project Gutenberg alone, plus Internet Archive scans), ranked by relevance and popularity, with direct epub/txt/html download links. Add words to narrow by title or author. Re-verified daily. $0.01 per page of 20.

## Output

A paginated list (20 items per page) of public-domain English poetry books, each with title, author, relevance/popularity ranking, and direct download links in epub, txt, and/or html formats. The catalogue is re-verified daily and draws from ~674+ Project Gutenberg titles plus Internet Archive scans.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
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 "required": [
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 ],
 "properties": {
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   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {}
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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